Reddit mentions of Religion and Society in Roman Palestine: Old Questions, New Approaches

Surely you mean the Acts of Paul and Thecla ;)


Here are some book recommendations:

1. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul by Wayne A. Meeks
   
   
2. After the First Urban Christians: The Social-Scientific Study of Pauline Christianity Twenty-Five Years Later by Wayne A. Meeks
   
   
3. The World Jesus Knew: Beliefs and Customs from the Time of Jesus by Anne Punton (less scholarly but quite straightforward and convenient for finding just about anything you'd want to know about basic lifestyle)
   
   
4. The Jesus Movement: A Social History of Its First Century by Ekkehard W. Stegemann
   
   
5. The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology 3rd by Bruce J. Malina
   
6. The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era: Exploring the Background of Early Christianity by James S. Jeffers
   
7. Religion and Society in Roman Palestine: Old Questions, New Approaches by Douglas R. Edwards
   
   EDIT: The HarperCollins Visual Guide to the New Testament is also fun.